I Like Mountain Music
| I Like Mountain Music | |
|---|---|
| Merrie Melodies series | |
| Directed by | Rudolf Ising |
| Produced by |
Hugh Harman Rudolf Ising Leon Schlesinger |
| Music by | Frank Marsales |
| Animation by |
Isadore Freleng Larry Martin Uncredited: Robert Clampett Thomas McKimson Paul Smith |
| Studio | Harman-Ising Pictures |
| Distributed by |
Warner Bros. Vitaphone |
| Release date(s) | June 14, 1933 (USA) |
| Color process | Black-and-white |
| Running time | 6:59 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
I Like Mountain Music is a pre-Code WB cartoon directed by Rudolf Ising and released in 1933 as part of the Merrie Melodies series.
Plot
At night, the magazines at a drugstore come to life and put on a show. However, the man on the crime magazine seizes the opportunity to rob the cash. Now it's up to the sleuths of the detective magazine to catch him.
Trivia
This is an early example of "inanimate characters coming to life" formula which would become a staple of numerous Warner Bros. cartoons during the 1930s. Highlights include a parody of True Story magazine as True Trash Weekly (probably the earliest jab aimed at a popular work in a cartoon) and a dust-filled American Business magazine dated October 1929.
A "nasty humor" magazine is represented by a girl in her undergarments, while the cover girl in the College Humor magazine is shown to apparently have no underwear at all beneath her transparent dress, an aspect that dates the cartoon to the early 1930s. There is also some reused animation from the 1932 WB cartoon Pagan Moon.
Celebrity cameos include Edward G. Robinson, who is inside the pages of a crime magazine. Comedian Ed Wynn appears in an ad for "Texico Quick-Exploding Gasoline" while Eddie Cantor takes off the beard of a violinist to reveal he's actually Rubinoff.
In a 1969 interview, Bob Clampett (one of the animators in this short) claimed that this cartoon was featured in the premiere of Gold Diggers of 1933 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.